Contr ibutor s Note s Bethany Reid’s Sparrow won the 2012 Gell Poetry Prize, selected by Dorianne Laux. Her poems, essays, and short stories have recently appeared in One Art, Passengers, Persimmon Tree, Constellations, and elsewhere, and her chapbook, The Thing with Feathers, was published in 2020 as part of Triple No. 10 by Ravenna Press. Bethany and her husband live in Edmonds, Washington, near their three grown daughters; she blogs about writing and life at bethanyareid.com.
Carla Riccio teaches creative writing at Boulder Writing Studio in Boulder, Colorado, where she lives with her family. This is her first publication.
Judith Sornberger’s full-length poetry collections are Angel Chimes: Poems of Advent and Christmas (Shanti Arts, 2020), I Call to You from Time (Wipf & Stock, 2019), Practicing the World (CavanKerry, 2018) and Open Heart (Calyx Books). Her prose memoir The Accidental Pilgrim: Finding God and His Mother in Tuscany is from Shanti Arts. She is professor emerita of Mansfield University where she taught English and Women’s Studies. She can be found at judithsornberger.net.
Suzanne Tyrpak has been a fan of haiku for many years. First introduced to the form in elementary school, she wrote a haiku comparing the world to a chestnut. She has written and published poetry, short stories, and novels. Currently, she’s an editor for Clark Strand’s online Haiku monthly newsletter, 17: Haiku in English. Originally from New York, Suzanne has lived in Colorado for many years. Connect with her via Facebook, Twitter, and her blog, When Haiku Rains: suzannetyrpak.blogspot.com/
Dick Westheimer has—with his wife and writing companion Debbie—lived, gardened, and raised five children on their plot of land in rural southwest Ohio. His most recent poems have appeared or are upcoming in Rattle, Paterson Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Minyan, Gyroscope Review, and Cutthroat. More can be found at dickwestheimer.com.
James K. Zimmerman is an award-winning writer and frequent Pushcart Prize nominee. His work appears in Carolina Quarterly, Folio, Lumina, Nimrod, Pleiades, Rattle, Salamander, and Vallum, among others. He is the author of Little Miracles (Passager, 2015) and Family Cookout (Comstock, 2016), winner of the 2015 Jessie Bryce Niles Prize.
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